Be damned if that doesn’t sound like an off-colour joke involving a fist and various nether regions. But it isn’t. Immortal Iron Fist: Orson Randall and the Green Mist of Death is a one-shot special that is going to be released in February from Marvel featuring Danny Rand’s predecessor as Iron Fist – Orson Randall.

We saw Randall in the first Immortal Iron Fist arc, “The Last Iron Fist Story,” which brought the legacy aspects of the Iron Fist to the fore, and we saw him in Iron Fist Annual #1, which gave us some entertaining background on Randall and what was basically a Steampunk-style adventuring team, the Confederates of the Curious.

Co-writer Matt Fraction has said this about the special:

Orson Randall and the Green Mist of Death finds the title character at a peak point in his heroic career. “He’s living high on the hog in the company of the Confederates of the Curious. And by the end he’s broken, bitter, paranoid, and on the run from 10,000 sinister forces, some real, some imagined. (source)

In my quest to see Iron Fist reach the top of the sales chart, you can expect to see my review of this as soon as I get it.